A27015:1386
The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholic religion against popery proving…The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholike religion against popery proving…
The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholic religion against popery proving that popery is against the Holy Scriptures, the unity of the catholic church, the consent of the ancient doctors, the plainest reason, and common judgment of sense it self / by Richard Baxter.The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholike religion against popery proving that popery is against the Holy Scriptures, the unity of the catholike church, the consent of the antient doctors, the plainest reason, and common judgment of sense it self / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1657
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
18. The Relics also of the Saints they worship and reverence, of which I will relate twelve errors and abuses of the Papists, as they are noted by Chemnitius.
18. The Reliques also of the Saints they worship and reverence, of which I will relate twelve errors and abuses of the Papists, as they are noted by Chemnitius.
1. That the bodies, ashes, or bones of the Saints are to be taken out of their graves, and placed in some high place, as upon the high Altar, or some other conspicuous place, and to be dressed with gold and silver, and silk, &c.
2. That those Relics ought to be carried in public processions and prayers, and to be showed and offered for Christian people to see, and touch, and kiss.
2. That those Reliques ought to be carried in publike processions and prayers, and to be shewed and offered for Christian people to see, and touch, and kiss.